Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling - Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales | Free Book
Charles Godfrey Leland
This vintage work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and
ceremonies used among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling,
witch-doctoring, love-philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by
many anecdotes and instances, taken either from works as yet very
little known to the English reader or from personal experiences.
Within a very few years, since Ethnology and Archaeology have received
a great inspiration, and much enlarged their scope through Folk-lore,
everything relating to such subjects is studied with far greater
interest and to much greater profit than was the case when they were
cultivated in a languid, half-believing, half-sceptical spirit which
was in reality rather one of mere romance than reason. Now that we
seek with resolution to find the whole truth, be it based on
materialism, spiritualism, or their identity, we are amazed to find
that the realm of marvel and mystery, of wonder and poetry, connected
with what we vaguely call “magic,” far from being explained away or
exploded, enlarges before us as we proceed, and that not into a mere
cloudland, gorgeous land, but into a country of reality in which men
of science who would once have disdained the mere thought thereof are
beginning to stray.
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